Koning Albert had a fabulous time back out doing a nice round at Willow Banks Equestrian Centre on a gorgeous sunny Saturday. His first outing since he was injured 6 months ago and he was keen to show he'd forgotten nothing. A lovely steady double clear and Berti was very relaxed and enjoying being back out. I had lots of lovely comments from peopl...

Ellie Roberts and Koning Albert performed 2 lovely tests at Hill House EC today, gaining lots of Qualifying points for the Regionals at this level. The warm up wasn't without drama, when Berti, (who was wearing "ears" for the first time, only to save his forelock) shook his head and removed the whole bridle. He just stood there, enjoying the n...

Ellie Roberts, Jill and Koning Albert, travelled down to the Stallion Show held again at Addington Manor Equestrian Centre in Buckinghamshire in February.  We set up the night before and Berti settled well. We set out the table in the morning, Ellie plaited Berti up and got ready for our display just after lunch. We met lots of lovely peo...

What a little dressage star Berti is!!Ellie and Berti competed in the Winter Regionals at Arena UK today in the Elementary Freestyle to Music class. I may be biased but I just love this music, and Berti was on great form not putting a foot wrong. Ellie devised a great floor plan and with the accompanying music selected by Jill and edited ...

Well, there's nothing like going in big!Berti and Ellie Roberts competed in their first ever Medium tests at the weekend and he held his own against some very smart combinations! In the Medium 4 test, Berti made some schoolboy errors in a couple of places which both judges picked up, but they still gained a respectable mark of 65.63% and ...

We are very excited to announce that we will be attending the 2025 Annual Stallion Show held at Addington Manor EC on Saturday 8th February 2025 Gate will open at 9.30am This year they will be starting with the Dressage Stallions at 11am followed by a long break where the stables opening to the public. The stables will then...

We are so pleased with the new stud cards and posters, meticulously and skilfully designed by our lovely friend Anton Fowler at Bubble 🎉 Available on our Stud page or here as pdf's to view or download, you can find lots of information on Koning Albert. If you would like a hard copy please drop me a message here Also some exciting new...

👻 👻 𝕾𝖕𝖔𝖔𝖐𝖙𝖆𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖆𝖗 𝕺𝖋𝖋𝖊𝖗👻 👻 Koning Sport Horses are offering a discounted Stud Fee to Koning Albert in 2025 😮 All you have to do: 👻Complete a Nomination form to Koning Albert for 2025 👻by Saturday 30th November, 2024 👻pay a deposit of £100 👽👽 Receive an "Early Bird Reduction" of £100 https://koningsh.co.uk/stud

Great result for Koning Albert and Action Annie who are both off to HOYS. A 5am start saw us heading up north to the Wolsingham Show for the HOYS Grade C Qualifier which is a 2 round class starting at 1m35 and the jump off at 1m40. Sponsored by John Chadwick Equestrian we had a bit of a laugh in the prizegiving together😆 Daniella Johnston rode her ...

To attend the U25's National Championships and come away with the Elementary Champion title is such a wonderful achievement for us all. A very busy week for Ellie Roberts, saw her competing 6 days in a row, on 3 different horses, making podium visits every day. Phenomenal result! Monday and Tuesday competing her own horse, Lyon at Sheepgate being p...

Having done so well at dressage last week, it was nice to get out with Koning Albert to do his favourite job of jumping. Berti needs to get his Foxhunter Double clears for 2024, so we dropped back down to go for some nice steady clears. Dani Johnston has such a great relationship with Berti, she knows exactly when he's concentrating on the job, sho...

Wonderful to be invited to compete at this great friendly event. So much work and preparation had been done on the surface with great prizes, sponsorship and gorgeous rosettes, congratulations to Moseley Equestrian for putting on such a friendly and well run show. Koning Albert and Dani Johnston did a great double clear in the 1m20m taking 6th...

𝕂𝕠𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝔸𝕝𝕓𝕖𝕣𝕥 𝕕𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕤 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕨𝕒𝕪 𝕥𝕠 𝟚 𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕤  We had another nice run out for a spot of dressage to gain more qualifying points at Elementary. In both tests today Albert was a little tight and showed some tension in several movements, but nothing major and in the E4 gained a score of 67.5% and 1st place. On only the second ever run of his Eleme...

So that he doesnt feel left out, we treat Mr. Koning Sport Horses to a dressage outing 🙈 Off we tootle to Manor Grange Stud for our very first go with our new Elementary Freestyle to Music, beautifully put together by Equidance. The music Jill loves is played by the group "Two Steps from Hell" and is such empowering music and suits Koning Albert ve...

A suuuper early start today for Team Koning. Up at 0440 to get the horses done, get Koning Albert ready and tootle 2 hours up North for the British Dressage Regionals. Berti came out the lorry super excited, but it wasn't because it's dressage, oh no, because he spotted about 20 miniature ponies on the way in, and thought he'd died and gone to heav...

So incredibly pleased with Koning Albert in Scotland this last weekend. We travelled up to Scotland with Dani and Kate Johnston and stayed off site at a nice yard about 10 minutes away. The on-site stabling being right next to Edinburgh Airport runway and very exposed to the constant wind and rain sadly. It was held at the venue of the Royal Highla...

Ellie Roberts, our wonderful dressage rider is keen to get Koning Alberts' qualifying scores in early for the Winter Regionals, so, armed with the new BD tests, we tootled off to Sheepgate EC, for 2 Elementary tests. Berti was feeling particularly fresh as we have been trying him on some new feed from Keyflow called Maestro. We only tried a small a...

Koning Albert in the 1m30

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟭𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝗡𝗢 𝗙𝗢𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢 𝗙𝗘𝗘 𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻.  𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘝𝘋𝘓 𝘹 𝘚𝘪𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘹 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴. 𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘧-𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 4* 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 3* 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘒𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰 𝘉 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 25 𝘴𝘪𝘣...

Koning Albert and Dani Johnston had a successful outing to the Lincolnshire Show this week. As part of Berti's education, we wanted him to do some classes on grass and in an electric and busy atmosphere. This is certainly achieved at the Lincolnshire Show! Having been invited to some training shows on grass, we were looking forward to this show at ...

This weekend has been unreal for Koning Albert and Ellie Roberts. We took part in the British Dressage North and East Championships at Epworth EC amongst some pretty strong combinations. Saturday Berti and Ellie performed in the Novice 23 and 37A with 34 entries in each. In some pretty shocking downpours, they danced their way to over 72% in both t...